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| PESHAWAR |
At least 17 people
have been killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb attack targeting the
security forces in north-west Pakistan.
Peshawar is on the edge of Pakistan's
semi-autonomous tribal region - the main militant haven from which attacks are
often launched.
BBC news from the hospital officials said that
four children were amongst those killed in the attack near Peshawar.
The bomb was placed inside a car parked on the
side of the road in a busy market area just south of the city.
The attack occurred at the time during a visit
to Pakistan by the British Prime Minister David Cameron.
The target was a convoy of troops, but all
those reported to have been killed were civilians.
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| Child in BOMB Attack |
The explosion was followed by an exchange of
fire between Frontier Corps - paramilitary soldiers - and the armed assailants,
reported Pakistani newspaper the Express Tribune.
The BBC's Richard Galpin, in Pakistan's
capital Islamabad, says this was just the latest in a spate of attacks which
has left 60 people dead in the past two weeks.
He add that it is unclear who carried out the
bombing, but the Pakistan Taliban has often targeted the security forces in the
past.
Tackling extremist violence was high on the
agenda during Mr Cameron's talks with the Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif
in Islamabad.
Last Monday, a senior police and his driver
were shot dead in the city. Three days earlier, a suicide bomb attack on a neighborhood
populated by some of the city's minority Shia Muslims killed 15.
It has been hit by dozens of bombings and
killings over recent years.